Last week Times Online published this Iain Duncan Smith piece, in which the former Tory leader talks about children, and tax and booze… and briefly mentions violent video games. The relevant paragraph is this: “Innocence, he warns,...

Earlier today, a number of newspapers ran sensationalist headlines that claimed a causal link between games and rickets. I tried to debunk the story simply by reading the same press release and publicly-available extract available to the...

UPDATE: I’ve emailed the scientists behind the research. They stated “We do not say that gaming causes rickets”. You can see their full views on the misleading press coverage at http://www.gamesbrief.com/2010/01/scientists-behind-games-cause-rickets-deny-a-specific-link/ I know I shouldn’t get angry...

Bolt Interactive has just announced some impressive numbers for Pocket God. The game has sold 2 million units since its launch in January 2009. That’s pretty impressive sales, even for a title that costs only $0.99. But...

Last week, I listed five games that left financial ruin in their wake in the first decade of the twenty-first century (you can read Part 1 here). Here are the concluding five. Five games that their publishers...

At the end of last year, we saw a lot of lists of best games of the decade. But we didn’t read about the turkeys. The games that really flopped. The games industry’s equivalent of Waterworld. Or...

How’s that for a reversal. Ever since GAMESbrief launched at the start of 2009, I’ve been banging the drum for the way the games industry is changing. I’ve blogged about Facebook games, web games, iPhone games. Even...